- What is Judaism & who are "the Jews"?  - Race - race, ethnicity, community, religion, culture, people or what? depends who you ask and when. - This training - it's people. Not a faith in that there is no necessity to have belief. - Judaism is religion of Jewish people. ==People came first, religion followed. == - Nazis defined as racial jew- any grandparent. Jews believe if mother (or father)- matrilineal. - Also atheist and secular Jews - ==three Bs- Beliefs, Behaviours, Belonging==. - Types - Ashkenazi - Sephardic - Mizrahi - middle eastern Arab jews. Not oppositional. 80k out of 200k people in Baghdad in 1920 were Jewish. - The relationship between Jews & whiteness - Jews get white privilege but also opposition to 'whiteness'. Racialisation- all things get raciailised. eyes, colour of skin, skin tone, hair, skull size. - Europe practised on jews before exporting racialisation to the colonies. - Jew blood is a 'pollutant'. Science tests needed to root out the jews as they pass in plain sight. - Demographics of the modern Jewish community. - 15m Jews in the world. Still not reached pre-holocaust numbers. - 280,000 in the UK. 0.3% of the population. Same as gypsy/traveller. - Census asks about Judaism ethnically and religiously. Not double counted- take higher number which is ethnically jewish. - 1 Jew in every single local authority. - 1945 Jews were biggest non christian group in the UK. - Antisemitism has a function- that's why - A note on language: using "Jew" & "antisemitism" - Jew - Israelites, other names too. ==Jew is latinised word used by christian community to describe Jews==. Pejorative. Used other words, Hebrews, Israelites, Yehudim. Reclamation of the word Jews. Baggage remains. - Antisemitism - German nationalist created. Used to be caused Judehaas (sp?). He creates term Semitism means a worldwide jewish conspiracy. He says he is antisemitic. No such thing as a semetic people. Same as saying I'm Aryan. - Others use ==anti-Jewish oppression==. - No such thing as 'semitic people'- describe group of languages that someone made up. - perpetuates notion of 'race science'. - This being the case, ==don't write the hyphen==. - A brief history of British antisemitism  - Jews brought in as property of the king after Hastings in 1070. Have to be tax collectors - 1144- ideas Jews killed Jesus, not roman empire begins. - Jews associated with money- Usery. Make Jews identifiable. - Banned from owning land or tradesmans guilds. - Demonic and opposite of Christian. - Blood libel- children blood used to make bread. Starts in England - Massacred in 1189. - Coordinated. York, norwich. - Way of erasing debt? Some evidence. - 1190s to 1250s - crown sanctioned persecution. - 1290 all Jews expelled from England - Homes property of king - 1650 - Cromwell informally ends ban on Jews - Sephadi community. Bring fish and chips. - 1867 - ==Jewish men get right to vote. After catholics==. Takes a lot of time to get through parliament - 1880s/ 1910s - Living in pales in Eastern Europe. - Jewish people attacked through Pogroms - Askkanazi Jews leave to England, scotland, - 1905 - Limits immigration through Aliens Act. TUC forerunner supports act. 43 Labour organisations support. But some go against it- Eleanor Marx sets up Socialist League. - 1936 - Cable street - fascists through streets of East End. - 100,000 people write to protest. 7000 police sent to protect protesters! - British Union Fascists membership trebles. - 1930s and 40s - Nazis - Separate children from children - Evian conference- every country except dominican republic says won't get - 40s and 50s - Some expelled even if don't believe in Israel - 1950s to 90s - Wave of Jewish migration. 1/2 of half Jewish people leave. Part of commonwealth countries coming to - 1990s - Russian Soviets oppress jews, many leave to come to UK. - This is very personal for Jews. Goes deep in psyche. - over 1000 years of history of presenter. No family lived in same country for 200 years. - Have a mental list of who would hide them if came back to. - ==How do we give Jewish people a sense of belonging when they don't even feel they belong anywhere, really?== - We're a part of the social justice movement. ==Should say that. How does this factor into the strategy? ==